The clarity on the old video unreal find old videos emotional in the fact nearly all be no longer alive🌹❤️🌹 life is sooo short. Be happy people in this horrible world at mo 🌹🙏
It was a thrill to go to Skegness in the 1960s for a holiday, so clean and vibrant, so much to do and see, loved the fireworks on the boating lake, mega dump now.
@@funfactsforeverUKthere most certainly has been development but there is a long way to go. I was in town on Saturday and had a walk down chip pan alley and that was a depressing experience. Lumley Road hasn’t changed much looking at these pictures. Hopefully millers group get on with the extension of the pier something that’s been in the pipeline for years. We also need some development with the lights on the front. We have them shining every September to January (sometimes feb depending on when the council takes them down) and nobody see’s them as they don’t advertise them and there up when nobody comes down. Seems pointless. We need to enhance the lights and make it an event like Blackpool. Skeg has so much potential.
@@artvampire5421 We used to have our summer holidays at Skegness but in the 1950s - early 1960s, but visited most Sundays in Summer and went to Seacroft. That isn't possible now because it is flooded. Don't visit so much now even though the road from Boston is a lot safer to drive.
Wen to Skegness in 1966 on the day England won the World Cup. My Dad took us to a bar at the end of the pier and him and loads of other dads got absolutely stoned 😂 Brilliant memories of a time when life was so much simpler and happy ❤
@@clivebennett7985 On the day of the World Cup we were travelling by car to Anglesey for our summer holiday. Unfortunately got stuck in a traffic jam during the Llangollen Eisteddfod and missed the first 90 minutes, other than a radio put on the back shelf of the car. However arrived at our cottage just as extra time was starting and saw that on TV. Pleased my video brought back your memories!
@TransportNostalgia Thank you . Just brilliant 👏. I was 12 at the time ,my brother was only 5 and the whole thing passed him by. He only has sketchy memories and it really annoys him !!
@@clivebennett7985 I was 14! And it was the World Cup of '66 that got me interested in football and started to watch my local team in the following season - Boston United. That has continued!
@@RobNorthampton Same here. We used to go to Seacroft. That isn't possible now due to all the water. Plus occasionally we would go to Gibraltar Point. But that meant a long walk through gorse bushes to the beach. But it was the best beach. That isn't possible now.
@@TransportNostalgia We used to regularly go to Seacroft too! One time, when I was 10, I was in a pool on the beach and stood on the end of around a foot of barbed wire that went into the bottom of my heel and out through the back. Luckily, my dad was an ambulance man so he managed to remove the wire and strap up my foot with gauze and bandages. The car park was flooded that day so Dad had parked on the road. He and his pal carried me on a flat deckchair across the water so I didn't get my foot wet! 😄 It healed perfectly over the next week or so. Memories. 😊
@@RobNorthampton The beach further along towards the pier had awful mud. It was far better at the Seacroft end. Turn the clock back for those times! (not for the barbed wire though!)
Almost all of the country is the same, everything gone down hill from our towns and cities to the size of chocolate bars and the constant bleating its for your safety. The people have lost pride in their appearance and none of this is by chance. If you have little pride in yourself and expect less then you are more maleble. I was there as a boy in Skeggy and it was a nice place to be, its scandalous what they have let Britain become.
Skegness has record visitor economy. Seaside tourism, in general, is bigger than ever but Skegness is one of the resort's notable for its success in the sector. I also can't agree with you when you say people have lost pride in their appearance: the complete opposite has happened. How do you explain all the surgical procedures women have and the hair extensions and girls being so skinny now and men practically living in gyms, fixated with their bodies and wanting to be bigger?
Traffic has got worse, also more junk food shops to spend your money in. People's dress sense has really changed from the semi formal dress of the 1960's. Still. we cannot stay in the past and things more one, some for the better, and others for worse. Great video Chris.
@@australiantrains8988 Thank you Dave. We used to holiday in Skegness in the 1950s, early 1960s and go most weekends during the summer and much preferred it "in the old days", but no Cine Films, only B&W photos. Saw Norman Wisdom in the Pier Theatre.
@@george11419 I knew Skegness from the 1960s, and it has changed a lot in parts, not for the better, although the fabric of the resort is largely the same.
In what way did rot set in after the '90s? It has record tourism industry and old things have been preserved. Remaining a classic resort with longer-standing attractions, complemented by new ones, and not having undergone redevelopments is behind Skegness's success.
@@basylpeterjones What old things have been preserved? The original Pier Frontage certainly wasn't preserved and the current one isn't a patch on the Art Deco version in my film.
@@TransportNostalgia You have a point about the pier frontage - but the pavilion that replaced it, back in 1971, looks fine. The North Parade hasn't changed much. The Arnold Palmer Putting Courses are going strong - they were lost in a lot of resorts some time after Arnold Palmer's Leisure Division, in the UK, was closed and they either fell into the wrong hands of poor owners or, in the odd case, were victim of council redevelopment schemes. They hold more historical significance than is realised; people don't think. The South Promenade, when you walk along that road, is the desolate part at the moment but it had Britain's first crazy golf, from 1927, until a few years ago. I think it's a shame the Lakeside Tearooms closed - and the model village.
@@basylpeterjones I don't know about the rest of the area - but the Pier frontage looked far better prior to 1971 if its replacement is the building that now stands.
@@TransportNostalgia I've always lived in N Wales and I didn''t visit Skegness until 2003 but have stayed there most years since. I do like the old pier frontage but, obviously, I never visited when it was there - although I was born in 1966. Locals complain about the pier a lot but I like it; the pavilion is a great attraction. Hopefully, if the promenade section is extended it will make them more positive.
There's some great shots here and the idea is fab. However what on earth was that music all about. Who had died. Skeggy is a fun, happy vibrant cheap and cheerful place to have a fantastic upbeat time. Why not a funky commentary. Sorry but I could only stand watching about 17 secs before I felt the need to go jump off the end of the pier, which wouldn't take me long to get there as bits have been chopped off over the years - fun fact to include?
@@GuyStaniland The music is fine otherwise I would not have used it. If someone had died I would have used the Death March by Chopin. I rarely use background music which overshadow the film. Anyone who doesn't like the music can use the mute button.
@@TransportNostalgia hi yes all you need to do is to bear it in mind, also see if you get any similar comments or it may just be me lol. I just thought that the actual footage was so good that if you could have put some "jaunty" style music on it with a bit of pithy commentary it could have been a really fab piece of work. perhaps even a little in the style of the old seaside postcards as it is the seaside and a bit more light hearted. I take on board some of your other comments about the town going downhill and not the same etc but that is the same pretty much everywhere but we all just have to make the best of it. As a family we stayed around skeggy in the 60's and 70's and I can tell you from first hand experience it wasn't always better than today!. Good work though.
Not as bad as said ...there isn't loads of drug dealers ,migrant hotels only one or two ...millions been spent on front...its no worse than Blackpool or Scarborough 😅
Skegness like many other British seaside resorts was amazing as kids during the July fortnight, but now it's all gone. Full of drug users, none native English people, 😮😮😮😮 drunks fighting in every bar, stag parties, homeless ect ect.
I live in ingoldmells and yes we have a big drug issue but so does most the country. As for the migrant hotels totally agree. They shouldn’t be here… and defo not in hotels…
The clarity on the old video unreal find old videos emotional in the fact nearly all be no longer alive🌹❤️🌹 life is sooo short. Be happy people in this horrible world at mo 🌹🙏
It was a thrill to go to Skegness in the 1960s for a holiday, so clean and vibrant, so much to do and see, loved the fireworks on the boating lake, mega dump now.
You've obviously not been for a while then!!! So much development and positive changes, it hasn't been as good as it is now for years.
Not a dump ....its still got plenty to offer 😅
@@funfactsforeverUKthere most certainly has been development but there is a long way to go. I was in town on Saturday and had a walk down chip pan alley and that was a depressing experience. Lumley Road hasn’t changed much looking at these pictures. Hopefully millers group get on with the extension of the pier something that’s been in the pipeline for years. We also need some development with the lights on the front. We have them shining every September to January (sometimes feb depending on when the council takes them down) and nobody see’s them as they don’t advertise them and there up when nobody comes down. Seems pointless. We need to enhance the lights and make it an event like Blackpool. Skeg has so much potential.
Very nice. Have some good memories there from my childhood. Was nice to see it in the 1960s as I was born in the 90s.
@@artvampire5421 We used to have our summer holidays at Skegness but in the 1950s - early 1960s, but visited most Sundays in Summer and went to Seacroft. That isn't possible now because it is flooded. Don't visit so much now even though the road from Boston is a lot safer to drive.
Wen to Skegness in 1966 on the day England won the World Cup. My Dad took us to a bar at the end of the pier and him and loads of other dads got absolutely stoned 😂 Brilliant memories of a time when life was so much simpler and happy ❤
@@clivebennett7985 On the day of the World Cup we were travelling by car to Anglesey for our summer holiday. Unfortunately got stuck in a traffic jam during the Llangollen Eisteddfod and missed the first 90 minutes, other than a radio put on the back shelf of the car. However arrived at our cottage just as extra time was starting and saw that on TV.
Pleased my video brought back your memories!
@TransportNostalgia Thank you . Just brilliant 👏. I was 12 at the time ,my brother was only 5 and the whole thing passed him by. He only has sketchy memories and it really annoys him !!
@@clivebennett7985 I was 14! And it was the World Cup of '66 that got me interested in football and started to watch my local team in the following season - Boston United. That has continued!
I can just about remember the 1964 Skegness. My dad used to take us from Boston quite regularly as kids, but I was only 7 in 1964. 🙂
@@RobNorthampton Same here. We used to go to Seacroft. That isn't possible now due to all the water.
Plus occasionally we would go to Gibraltar Point. But that meant a long walk through gorse bushes to the beach. But it was the best beach. That isn't possible now.
@@TransportNostalgia We used to regularly go to Seacroft too! One time, when I was 10, I was in a pool on the beach and stood on the end of around a foot of barbed wire that went into the bottom of my heel and out through the back. Luckily, my dad was an ambulance man so he managed to remove the wire and strap up my foot with gauze and bandages. The car park was flooded that day so Dad had parked on the road. He and his pal carried me on a flat deckchair across the water so I didn't get my foot wet! 😄 It healed perfectly over the next week or so. Memories. 😊
@@RobNorthampton The beach further along towards the pier had awful mud. It was far better at the Seacroft end. Turn the clock back for those times! (not for the barbed wire though!)
Love this 😊😊😊
@@sylviaastle7838 Thank you for watching. Hope I have more gems which you like👍
Almost all of the country is the same, everything gone down hill from our towns and cities to the size of chocolate bars and the constant bleating its for your safety. The people have lost pride in their appearance and none of this is by chance. If you have little pride in yourself and expect less then you are more maleble. I was there as a boy in Skeggy and it was a nice place to be, its scandalous what they have let Britain become.
@Kaisan-vc8fw We wont be here by 2040
@@jameskrell4392 Unfortunately change happens slowly and no one realises at the time.
@@TransportNostalgia You don’t when you are young but a bit later on you begin to realise that the good things are slipping away.
Skegness has record visitor economy. Seaside tourism, in general, is bigger than ever but Skegness is one of the resort's notable for its success in the sector.
I also can't agree with you when you say people have lost pride in their appearance: the complete opposite has happened. How do you explain all the surgical procedures women have and the hair extensions and girls being so skinny now and men practically living in gyms, fixated with their bodies and wanting to be bigger?
@@basylpeterjones Yes strange that and then they dress like they are acting in a apocalyptic dystopian film,
Traffic has got worse, also more junk food shops to spend your money in. People's dress sense has really changed from the semi formal dress of the 1960's. Still. we cannot stay in the past and things more one, some for the better, and others for worse. Great video Chris.
@@australiantrains8988 Thank you Dave. We used to holiday in Skegness in the 1950s, early 1960s and go most weekends during the summer and much preferred it "in the old days", but no Cine Films, only B&W photos. Saw Norman Wisdom in the Pier Theatre.
It looks as though time has stood still in Skegness. A timeless place. I wish it was the same with the rest of society.
@@george11419 I knew Skegness from the 1960s, and it has changed a lot in parts, not for the better, although the fabric of the resort is largely the same.
That is how I remember Skeggy in the 70s,it was a great place back then,was OK up through the 90s and then the rot set in.
In what way did rot set in after the '90s? It has record tourism industry and old things have been preserved. Remaining a classic resort with longer-standing attractions, complemented by new ones, and not having undergone redevelopments is behind Skegness's success.
@@basylpeterjones What old things have been preserved?
The original Pier Frontage certainly wasn't preserved and the current one isn't a patch on the Art Deco version in my film.
@@TransportNostalgia You have a point about the pier frontage - but the pavilion that replaced it, back in 1971, looks fine.
The North Parade hasn't changed much. The Arnold Palmer Putting Courses are going strong - they were lost in a lot of resorts some time after Arnold Palmer's Leisure Division, in the UK, was closed and they either fell into the wrong hands of poor owners or, in the odd case, were victim of council redevelopment schemes. They hold more historical significance than is realised; people don't think.
The South Promenade, when you walk along that road, is the desolate part at the moment but it had Britain's first crazy golf, from 1927, until a few years ago. I think it's a shame the Lakeside Tearooms closed - and the model village.
@@basylpeterjones I don't know about the rest of the area - but the Pier frontage looked far better prior to 1971 if its replacement is the building that now stands.
@@TransportNostalgia I've always lived in N Wales and I didn''t visit Skegness until 2003 but have stayed there most years since. I do like the old pier frontage but, obviously, I never visited when it was there - although I was born in 1966.
Locals complain about the pier a lot but I like it; the pavilion is a great attraction. Hopefully, if the promenade section is extended it will make them more positive.
Who remembers the monorail at Butlins?
Yep, and the miniature railway, and the chairlift.
Sadly known as Skagness now how times have changed ...😔
There's some great shots here and the idea is fab. However what on earth was that music all about. Who had died. Skeggy is a fun, happy vibrant cheap and cheerful place to have a fantastic upbeat time. Why not a funky commentary. Sorry but I could only stand watching about 17 secs before I felt the need to go jump off the end of the pier, which wouldn't take me long to get there as bits have been chopped off over the years - fun fact to include?
@@GuyStaniland The music is fine otherwise I would not have used it. If someone had died I would have used the Death March by Chopin. I rarely use background music which overshadow the film. Anyone who doesn't like the music can use the mute button.
@@TransportNostalgia can't add anything to that. Good luck with your channel and future posts.
@@GuyStaniland Thank you. But will bear in mind what you have said for similar films I may do in the future.
@@TransportNostalgia hi yes all you need to do is to bear it in mind, also see if you get any similar comments or it may just be me lol. I just thought that the actual footage was so good that if you could have put some "jaunty" style music on it with a bit of pithy commentary it could have been a really fab piece of work. perhaps even a little in the style of the old seaside postcards as it is the seaside and a bit more light hearted. I take on board some of your other comments about the town going downhill and not the same etc but that is the same pretty much everywhere but we all just have to make the best of it. As a family we stayed around skeggy in the 60's and 70's and I can tell you from first hand experience it wasn't always better than today!. Good work though.
@@GuyStaniland Thanks for your comments. They also gave me an idea of what I could do in the future if I didn't have actual films.
migrant hotels drug dealers and drunks lots of tat shops and take aways if that is what you want come to skegness
That could be the case of a lot of places in the UK.
Not as bad as said ...there isn't loads of drug dealers ,migrant hotels only one or two ...millions been spent on front...its no worse than Blackpool or Scarborough 😅
Skegness like many other British seaside resorts was amazing as kids during the July fortnight, but now it's all gone. Full of drug users, none native English people, 😮😮😮😮 drunks fighting in every bar, stag parties, homeless ect ect.
Think I preferred the 1960s Skegness, nice and clean. Its now a shit hole, fast food, drugs and migrants.
@@andrewwardle-d5b We used to have our Sumer holidays in Skegness in the 1960s. Also visited most weekends during the Summer.
its a shit hole now i know i live there
How is it so popular then? It's notable for its very big visitor industry for such a small town.
Cheap and cheerful perhaps?
i live there 4 migrant hotels and bad drug priblem just ask police
I live in ingoldmells and yes we have a big drug issue but so does most the country. As for the migrant hotels totally agree. They shouldn’t be here… and defo not in hotels…
It looks a dreary dump.
@@frdavid755 Then or Now?